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Bug 325655

Summary:	Startup performance should not be worse than in 3.x
Product:	z_Archived	Reporter:	Stefan Mücke <s.muecke>
Component:	E4	Assignee:	Project Inbox <e4.runtime-inbox>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	bokowski, remy.suen
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 7
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Description Stefan Mücke

2010-09-17 16:58:39 EDT

As an RCP developer, I strongly agree with Doug Schaefer (see http://cdtdoug.blogspot.com/2010/02/ok-eclipse-you-have-3-seconds.html) that start up performance is important. Eclipse 4 RCP startup should not be slower than Eclipse 3 RCP. Unless this is the case, I would think twice before porting my app to Eclipse 4.

Currently, Eclipse 4 startup *feels* slower to me than 3.x, but I have not done a "face-to-face" comparison.

(I hope to find the time to do some profiling work on this, especially for cold starts.)